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All it does so far is parse out the information you get back from the LJ server and present it as tables in an HTML document to your browser. I don't log any inputs to the form, but if you don't trust me - use username: test / password: test .

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Today, has been a very productive day in terms of my brain actually working and getting round some of the difficulties I was having last night. Being 3am was a distinct problem, I think.

I would like at least one of you people out there to try to do the following with my web page: Do a check friends thing, post a public entry to your journal, post a private entry to your journal, and then check friends again. See if the thing that says "NewFriendsEntries" is true. This is the one thing I am worried about, as cookies scare me :)

Oh wait, this will only work if you have yourself on your friends list. Well, either way - I'd like y'all to check and see if the checkfriends thing works for you. It should set a session-cookie in your browser which only contains the "lastupdate" info sent back from the server.

http://www.philsumner.co.uk/client.html

Thank you in advance.
Phil

Testing - Should be Private

There's a program on Discovery tonight at 9:30 on the "Airport in the Sea". I've heard of this before and briefly read bits and pieces on it, but considering I can't even remember where it is right now, I've got no chance of remembering anything else ;) The hope is that this program will be interesting, and gives lots of techie details, which is after all why I watch Discovery. This seems to be a challenging goal for a lot of Discovery's producers, however.

I should be watching BBC Four's Diana Krall in concert, but I'm big on either paying full attention to the TV (a la Discovery / BBC Four documentaries / The Simpsons or even Malcolm in the Middle), or watching it while doing something else (ironing or spodding are two good examples). So, tonight I am not doing ANY ironing, and can't watch BBC Four whilst spodding any more, since I got rid of my DigiBox. And I just can't be dealing with concentrating on a concert on TV...

I have now made my decision. I have decided that I decidedly like Little Axe. The music is bluesey, guitar-ish, dubsy, relaxed, soulful, folk-ish, chilled, fantastically performed and absolutely wonderfully written. As far as I know, they are also on the On-U Sounds record label *grins*

Unfortunately, having not seen any of their own CDs (if they have any - I have stuff on compilations) in shops, I'm left to use Audiogalaxy. Which is - I must say - a damn good source for fairly obscure music. I would provide a link to an official Home Page but as far as I can tell there isn't one :( There's a new CD coming out on the 6th May, though. Little Axe - Hard Grind (ONUCD1001), hopefully I'll be able to afford it...

Yep, the documentary was interesting indeed - though they never go into enough detail! If they did it in enough detail for me, I guess the programs would run for hours and hours, lol. Fabulous idea - if you can't build an airport on land, why not make a 4km long island in a 100m (and more) deep section of sea? How hard can it be? :)

And the idiots have decided that they need to expand! They're going to build a second runway and terminal building for use by 2007, going over even deeper water and even softer clay than before.

An idea that I thought was incredibly clever was the method for draining the clay at the sea bed. This needs to be done in order to strengthen the clay there, and try to reduce subsidence. They drill tubes into the clay, fill them with sand, then remove the tubes. Then when the landfill is dumped on the sea bed, the water is absorbed into the sand (the pressure from the landfill pushes the water out of the clay and is immediately absorbed). Fantastic.

Then the way they deal with different rates of subsidence in different parts fo the building. This threatens to rip the building apart - if the ends subside faster than the middle, for example. So - the supports that hold the structure and roof up can be individually jacked up and down from the basement floor, keeping the structure straight and level! Simplicity in a glass.

It's things like this that make me want to be an architect or (physical) engineer :)